Word: avalon
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...remember seeing some of the kids from "Bandstand" occasionally on the elevated train near the show's West 46 Street studio. In real life they looked small, sallow, extravagantly Vaselined, with poofter pompadours and funny shoes. The rest of the country had Elvis lookalikes; we had Frankie Avalon clones. Of course, the kids had to be dolled up - they were in show business! And they acquired something like the young luster of Annette Funicello on another ABC afternoon attraction, "The Mickey Mouse Club." (Annette would have an apt, attractive fit with the Philly paisans.) The featured dancers on "Bandstand" received...
...usual meat-market environment of trendy Boston nightclub Avalon is curiously changed tonight. The excited chatter is about two octaves higher than usual, and a quick inspection reveals a 20:1 girl to guy ratio. Indeed, it seems the only specimens of the male persuasion are reluctant boyfriends—one of them is curiously out of place in a Jim Morrison jacket, trying to look nonchalant. Somewhere, off in the far rear section of the line, an impossibly shrill voice pierces the winter frost and highlights the ineffable strangeness of the night...
...Avalon Ballroom...
...give you / all my old synesthetic fire.” These are the more saccharine moments, but they set the general tempo. More frequently, those bytes join forces to experiment in vagueness: “The sex & chess & cello fever’s gone / from your myopic trust, my Avalon.” “rare black-tipped cigarettes / in a handmade basket-case...
...Barre spin an Indian fable, How the Rabbit Stole the Sun, in the Ahwahnee Camp Circle. Catch the charming film snippets of Rosie O'Donnell and Colin Mochrie in the Boudin Bakery pavilion. Wander through Paradise Pier, where you will find Wolfgang Puck's to-diet-for seafood restaurant, Avalon Cove. Are you listening to the perky sound of a carousel calliope? Hold on--it's playing Warm California...